Eaves-trough hanger



(No Model.)

H.-B. TODD.

' E'AVES TROUGH HANGER.

No. 378,530. Patented Feb. 28, 1888.

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' combinations, as more particularly hereinafter PATENT rrrcst HENRY B. TODD, OF MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT.

EAVES-TROUGH HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 378,530, dated February 28, 1888.

(No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY B. TODD, of Meriden, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Eaves-Trough Hangers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, whereby any one skilled in the art can make and use the same.

The object of my improvement is to provide a device for securing an eaves-trough from the edge of a roof, the said device having improved fastening means; and to this end my improvement consists in the combination of the suspendingrod, having the adjusting and bending gage and the adj ustable cross-bar with rod-socket and clamp, and with the clamping devices at the opposite ends of the crossbar, and in details of the several parts and their described, and pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of the hanger. Fig. 2 is a detail sectional view of the hanger as secured to a trough and suspending it from the edge of a roof.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter a denotes a suspending-rod that is usually of iron and flat, with a series of notches, b, or roughened along one edge to receive the bite of a clamp'screw, c, that is borne in a threaded socket in the crossbar c. This rod a is also provided along one side with a row of marks or dots at equal intervals, forming the leveling-gage a, these dots showing points at which to bend the hangers. For example, if the first hanger is bent at the lower dot and other hangers at succeeding dots, and these hangers are secured along the eaves in the order in which bent and at regular intervals, the requisite pitch or slope of the trough or gutter for causing the water to flow off will be insured.

The cross-bar c is made, preferably, of metal cast to shape, with a socket, 0 near the center of the bar for the passage of the suspendingrod, the bite end of the clamp-screw 0 being adapted to project into this socket for the purpose of clamping the cross-bar to the rod. The outer ends of the cross-bar c terminate in clamping or fastening devices (I d, the metal being flexible or made malleable to permit it to be closed down upon the edge of the trough f.

punches are formed the sockets e, the whole so arranged that the arm may be closed upon the edge of a metal trough, f, so as to cause the punches and these sockets to operate as a die to punch holes through the trough, and at the same time the metal thrown out thereby is turned over into the socket, forming an extremely secure fastening device that is easily operated by simple means.

Another form of fastening isthat shown at d, where the arm (I is made long enough to enable it to embrace the roll f of the trough. In line with the bar and on the inner side of the arm are made the spurs 9, that punch through the metal of the trough when the arm is curved around upon the roll-edge as by means of pinchers; and to facilitate the use of the pinchers I provide in some forms a holding-point, d", on the back or top side of the arm, and this may be a lug, as shown, or a depression that will equally well hold one jaw of the pinchers from slipping, while the other jaw is used to clamp the arm about the rolledge of the trough.

The method of securing the hanger to the roof and the cross-bar to the trough is clearly shown in the drawings.

I claim as my invention.-

1. In combination with the suspending-rod having the notched edge, the crossbar having a rod-socket and a clamp device to secure it to the rod, and the adjustable cross-bar having on its ends the attaching device, consisting of the curved arm bearing the inturned punches and the corresponding socket in the bar end, all substantially as described.

2. In combination with the suspending-rod a, having the notches b and levelinggage a, the cross-bar c, with the rod-socket c, clampscrew 0, and sockets e, the said bar terminating in the curved arm (1, bearing the punches c, all substantially as described.

3. In combination with an eaves-trough, a cross-bar secured to the edges and spanning the trough andhavingasuspending-barsocketwith a clamp device, and a suspending-rod consisting of a single piece or bar of metal and having along its length a series of dots or marks con stituting a bending and leveling gage, all substantially as described.

4. In combination with the suspending-rod a, the cross-bar c, with the rod-socket c and the clamp-screw c, the said bar terminating at one end with the spurs g, and curved arm d having on its back the holding-point d, all substantially as described.

5. In a trough-hanger, the suspending-rod and the crossbar secured to the suspendingrod, the said cross-bar terminating at one end with the spurs g, and the curved arm d, that is adapted to inclose the rolled edge of the trough, all substantially as described.

HENRY B. TODD.

Vitnesses:

CHAS. L. BURDETT, A. B. JENKINS. 

